Pixelworks to Acquire ViXS Systems

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Pixelworks, Inc. (NASDAQ: PXLW), a leading provider of visual processing
solutions and Toronto-based ViXS Systems Inc. (TSX: VXS), a pioneer in
media processing, encoding and transcoding solutions, today announced
that the companies have entered into a definitive agreement under which
Pixelworks will acquire all of the outstanding common shares of ViXS in
an all-stock transaction consisting of approximately 3.7 million shares
of Pixelworks common stock valued at approximately US$20.2 million. At
the effective closing date, each share of ViXS will be exchanged for
0.04836 of a share of Pixelworks’ common stock. The exchange ratio is
equivalent to consideration of US$0.26 per ViXS common share, based on
the closing price of Pixelworks on May 17, 2017. Based on a 60-day
trailing average stock price for Pixelworks of US$4.65 per share and
C$0.21 (US$0.15) per share for ViXS, the transaction represents a
premium of approximately 47.7%.

Transaction Highlights

Pixelworks expects that the transaction will:

Strengthen its patent portfolio with addition of more than 470 issued
and pending worldwide patents held by ViXS;

Broaden its product offerings and diversify revenue across end markets;

President and CEO of Pixelworks, Todd DeBonis, commented, “Today’s
announced acquisition of ViXS represents a unique opportunity to
strengthen our position as a known technology leader with extensive
visual and video processing expertise. In addition to adding highly
complementary technology and product offerings, the transaction is
expected to provide the potential to meaningfully accelerate the
development of comprehensive end-to-end video streaming solutions.
Similar to Pixelworks, ViXS has a long heritage in visual processing
solutions with a team of engineers that have deep technical expertise.
ViXS divested its legacy MoCA business earlier this year and narrowed
its strategic focus to efficient delivery solutions for high-quality
video, including best-in-class transcoding and decoder technologies.

“Additionally, Pixelworks’ acquisition of ViXS holds the potential to
deliver meaningful value to our respective customers and shareholders.
Importantly, we expect the acquisition to be accretive to Pixelworks’
full-year 2018 earnings, even when considering the dilution. The
transaction also combines the intellectual property and R&D resources of
the two companies in support of current and future product development
efforts.”

Commenting on the proposed acquisition, Sohail Khan, President and CEO
of ViXS, “This transaction represents a compelling opportunity to
achieve greater scale and market penetration with our best-in-class
UHD/HDR solutions for Consumer and Video Delivery Infrastructure market
segments. Additionally, Pixelworks’ acquisition of ViXS is expected to
provide not only world class engineering and technology, but a joint
platform to monetize industry-leading innovation into significant value
to our customers, employees and shareholders.”

Additional Transaction Details

ViXS’s board of directors has, after consultation with its financial and
legal advisors and based on the recommendation of its special committee
of independent directors established to consider the transaction,
determined that the proposed transaction is fair to ViXS’s shareholders
and in the best interests of ViXS, and it recommends that ViXS
shareholders vote in favour of the transaction. Needham & Company,
acting as financial advisor to ViXS, delivered a fairness opinion to the
ViXS board of directors. The transaction has also been approved by
Pixelworks’ board of directors.

The transaction will be effected by way of a court-approved plan of
arrangement under the Canada Business Corporations Act. The
transaction is subject to a number of closing conditions, including
approval by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (Commercial List) and
obtaining certain third-party consents. The arrangement agreement
provides for customary deal protections, including a non-solicitation
covenant by ViXS. A copy of the arrangement agreement will be available
under ViXS’s profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.

ViXS will hold an annual and special meeting of shareholders no later
than July 28, 2017 to conduct the annual business of the company and to
consider the transaction. In order for the transaction to proceed, it
must be approved by at least 66 2/3% of the votes cast at such meeting.

The directors and officers of ViXS and certain shareholders,
collectively holding 36% of ViXS’ common shares, have entered into
support and voting agreements and agreed to vote their common shares in
favor of the transaction at the meeting.

Further information regarding the transaction will be included in an
information circular to be mailed to ViXS shareholders in due course.
The transaction is expected to close in the third calendar quarter of
2017.

Pixelworks’ legal counsel are Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP in the
U.S. and Stikeman Elliott LLP in Canada, and ViXS’s legal counsel is
Gowling WLG in Canada and David Wright Tremaine in the U.S. Needham &
Company is acting as financial advisor to ViXS.

Further details can be found in Pixelworks’ Form 8-K filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission. Additional information about ViXS is
available on the Company’s website at www.vixs.com.

Conference Call Information

Pixelworks and ViXS will host a joint conference call today, May 18, at
5:30 p.m. Eastern Time/ 2:30 p.m. Pacific Time, to discuss the proposed
transaction. The conference call can be accessed by calling
1-877-359-9508 and using passcode 25012334. International callers may
join the teleconference by dialing +1-224-357-2393 and entering the same
passcode at the prompt. A Web broadcast of the call can be accessed by
visiting the Investor Relations section of Pixelworks' website at www.pixelworks.com.
For those unable to listen to the live Web broadcast, a replay will be
made available on the Web site. A replay of the conference call will
also be available through May 25, 2017, and can be accessed by calling
1-855-859-2056 and using passcode 25012334.

About Pixelworks, Inc.

Pixelworks creates, develops and markets visual display processing
solutions for applications that demand the very highest quality images.
At design centers around the world, Pixelworks engineers constantly push
visual processing performance to keep manufacturers of consumer
electronics and professional displays worldwide on the leading edge. The
Company is headquartered in San Jose, CA. For more information, please
visit the Company’s Web site at www.pixelworks.com.

Note: Pixelworks and the Pixelworks logo are registered trademarks of
Pixelworks, Inc.

About ViXS Systems Inc.

ViXS is a pioneer and market leader in designing revolutionary media
processing semiconductor solutions for video over IP streaming
solutions, with more than 470 patents issued and pending worldwide,
numerous industry awards for innovation, and over 33 million media
processors shipped to date. ViXS is driving the transition to Ultra HD
4K across the entire content value chain by providing professional and
consumer grade chipsets that support the new High Efficiency Video
Coding (HEVC) standard up to Main 12 Profile, reducing bandwidth
consumption by 50% while providing the depth of color and image clarity
needed to take advantage of higher-resolution content. ViXS’ XCodePro
300 family is ideal for Ultra HD 4K infrastructure equipment, and the
XCode 6000 family of system-on-chip (SoC) products achieve unprecedented
levels of integration that enable manufacturers to create cost-effective
consumer entertainment devices.

ViXS is headquartered in Toronto, Canada with offices in Europe, Asia
and North America. VIXS™, the ViXS® logo, XCode®, XCodePro™ and Xtensiv™
are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of ViXS. Other trademarks
are the property of their respective owners. For more information on
ViXS, visit our website: www.vixs.com.

Safe Harbor Statement

This release contains forward-looking statements, including, without
limitation, statements with respect to the expected timing of the
closing, Pixelworks’ expectations with respect to the impact of the
transaction, including as to its patent portfolio, product offerings,
the diversification of revenue, scale and R&D, product and solution
opportunities, and that the transaction will expand ViXS’ OTA platform
and be accretive to Pixelworks’ full year 2018 earnings and earnings per
share and deliver meaningful value to the customers and stakeholders of
Pixelworks and ViXS, as well as Pixelworks’belief that the
transaction will strengthen its position in the market, add
complementary technology and product offerings and accelerate
Pixelworks’ development of comprehensive end-to-end visual streaming
solutions, within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of
1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended. These statements may be identified by use of terms
such as “begin,” “continue,” “will,” “believe,” “expect” and similar
terms or the negative of such terms. All statements other than
statements of historical fact are forward-looking statements for
purposes of this release, including any projections of revenue or other
financial items or any statements regarding the plans and objectives of
management for future operations. Such statements are based on
management's current expectations, estimates and projections about
Pixelworks’ business. These statements are not guarantees of future
performance and involve numerous risks, uncertainties and assumptions
that are difficult to predict. Actual results could vary materially from
those contained in forward-looking statements due to many factors,
including, without limitation: risks related to the pending acquisition
of ViXS, including our ability to complete and to realize the
anticipated benefits of the transaction in a timely manner or at all,
and to successfully integrate ViXS’ business with Pixelworks, the timing
of completion of the transaction, costs associated with the transaction,
and the potential impact of the transaction, or announcement thereof,
and reaction thereto, on our business, operating results and financial
condition; our ability to deliver new products in a timely fashion; our
new product yield rates; changes in estimated product costs; product
mix; supply of products from third-party foundries; failure or
difficulty in achieving design wins; timely customer transition to new
product designs; competitive factors, such as rival chip architectures,
introduction or traction by competing designs, or pricing pressures;
risks related to licensing our intellectual property; the success of our
products in expanded markets; current global economic challenges; levels
of inventory at distributors and customers; changes in the digital
display and projection markets; changes in customer ordering patterns or
lead times; seasonality in the consumer electronics market; our efforts
to achieve profitability from operations; insufficient, excess or
obsolete inventory and variations in inventory valuation; the outcome of
any litigation related to our intellectual property rights; and our
limited financial resources and our ability to attract and retain key
personnel. More information regarding potential factors that could
affect Pixelworks’ financial results and could cause actual results to
differ materially is included from time to time in Pixelworks’
Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including its Annual Report
on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2016 as well as subsequent
SEC filings.

The forward-looking statements contained in this release speak as of
the date of this release, and Pixelworks does not undertake any
obligation to update any such statements, whether as a result of new
information, future events or otherwise.

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